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“You hold up your relationship like a sacred cow!” Stella screamed.
“You’re so irresponsible for seeing him so much during a pandemic,” she added, face red, and body vibrating. But just a few minutes after her outburst, she approached me smiling, arms outstretched, saying “HUG?”.
This wasn’t the first time she’d spoken to me so aggressively and then quickly flipped the script. How could someone spout so much venom at me, yet still feel so entitled to my validation? Clearly, we didn’t have the promising, close friendship I once thought it was. Instead, I learned that her behaviour fell under a dysfunctional emotional cycle known as ‘trauma bonding’ - a cycle of manipulative behaviour that amounts to emotional abuse.
Hirsi will be attending Columbia University in New York City this fall.
Throughout the last century, communist regimes have resulted in oppression and death
for tens of millions of people worldwide, including and especially in the nascent Soviet Union. It is then that the hammer and sickle symbol was first adopted among the proletariat, or working class, and has since become the international emblem of communism.
The congresswoman s daughter has amassed a massive following on Twitter and Instagram through her work with the U.S. Youth Climate Strike. She has also spoken at prestigious venues, including giving her own
TED talk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina titled An Angry Black Girl.